The Straits Budget, 24 April 1952

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [EBTABLBHID OVER A CENTURY] \Yw Series No. 21*9. Thursday, April 24, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency* Or 1
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      129 1 MUREX ELECTRODES CHOSEN wFOR THE /y" V.«, WORLDS BIG WELDING JOBS 'I# V V V v- V I; > a m *0* ;>» y i*r Murex arc welding electrodes have been used on the fabricated steelwork of the new House of Commons, London. Murex arc welding electrodes were used or
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      Awaiting the kind attention of his obedient servant
      230 2  -  HANDICAPPED. Kuala Lumpur. I GATHER from His Excellency s outburst against golfers and party-goers a tacit complaint that precious time is being squandered. In all helpfulness, may I draw gubernatorial attention to the way in which many of the Departments in the
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      Green for Danger
      76 2  -  D. NIBLICK. Nagfi Somfeilan. The nasty Communists, they say OrpartTeT 6 th6ir PreC,0US time in P'»V But only seek to slay and wreck, My hea^' erSCry A h -ds on deck. Bridge cocktails, races, billiards spurn axas R d At snooker. Pt S6r r>' E f PatS>
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      OBJECT IN MIND
      226 2  -  K.BC. Singapore. General templers recent criticism of certain sections of “pleasure-crazy" Malayans for their dormant attitude in the Federation Emergency has been interpreted by the Press as a demand for non-indulgence in aU forms of recreation. Thus the Straits Times on AprU 15 declared that Gen. Templer’s
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      THE COURSE LAID DOWN
      51 2  -  ‘vvvll 5v]. vucxu. TUAN KECHIL. Perak. VOUR remarks on AntiBandit Month, in your leader of April 15 “Getting On with the Job,” are very much to the point. 17 Oeneral Templer’s cry of do something” is unhelpful After all, golfers follow a course laid down for
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      His Excellency’s Gauntlet
      586 2  -  AN OX. Seremban. THE rebuke adminis- tered by Sir Gerald Templer in his address to Rotarians the Saturday before last, which has been seized upon by certain sections of the British Press, Rives the impression that it was intended specifically for civilians. While His Excellency’* plain speaking
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      Brains Behind the Story
      360 2  -  THE RADIO SCIENTIS Singapore. fT will b e a very long time before I again entertain any visiting journalists to a Sunday pahit party, and regale them, not only with drinks, but with legendary stories of monkey brain feasts in the wilds of Java. Mr. Helliwell’s
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      BARRED FROM THE CLUBS?
      105 2  -  JAMES STEWART MATHESON. Singapore. IF General Templer means M what he has said in his recent public speech to a private organisation now the Easter holidays are over 1 suggest his first action should be to issue the following directive to ALL clubs: Commissioner directs that
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      The Service Bill
      740 3 —Straits Times. Apr. 17. Hu National Service Bill limes before the Singapore I .cmhitive Council today for reading. The two Uib ur members of the Counexcepted, the principle of bill probably will not n a with any opposition. As ds pay and conditions of m rvice, however,
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      Bricks Without Straw
      684 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 18. While the final impression of the report of Singapore s Department of Social Welfare is of the enormous amount of work that remains to be done, there is much in the record for 1951 of which the Department may feel proud. The principal
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      The Sub-tenants’ Charter
      419 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 18. Amendment by the Singapore Legislative Council of the Control of Rent Ordinance is not being done in haste. The Select Committee which reported yesterday was completing a task begun by a previous committee two years ago. The result is a new and comprehensive
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      A Principle Approved
      614 3 -Straits Times, Apr. 19 The principle of compulsory national service has now been approved by both Malayan legislatures, with only a single dissentient voice in the two Councils. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, President of the Labour Party, was obeying a party resolution of disapproval and in the
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      Advice To A Governor
      622 4 —Straits Times. Apr. 22. The shower of free advice which is now regarded as the proper greeting for any high official appointed to Malaya «eems in the case of Singapore’s new Governor not to have included the most help- I ful guidepost of all. Particularly for
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      Vice In The Streets
      519 4 —Straits Times. Apr. 22. Singapore Is not doing very well in its battle against vice. A short walk in the city streets after dark makes this only too clear. But the worst part of this traffic in bodies, the trade in young girls, lies hidden in
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      U.S. Rubber Picture
      775 4 -Straits Times, Apr 23 The U.S. Government has gone further than was expected in removing all controls to the use of natural and synthetic rubber, except for pale and sole crepe which temporarily are in short supply. It is assumed, perhaps wrongly, that this means the end
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      Policemen, Not Watchmen
      347 4 —Straits Times. Apr. 23. Quality not quantity i s sensible maxim in the n building o£ the Federation Police Force though it h.„ taken rather a long time for this wisdom to soak in. 7% recommendations of tho UK Mission which came out here more than two
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    Mr. E.W.G. Siddall
    45 4 SITIAWAN, Apr. 22.—Mr F W. G. Siddal], who recent y returned from leave in Brit at Is acting as general ma” 1 of the Sungei Wangi group. Sitiawan. rr He succeeds Mr. W. L vey who has gone on 4> to Britain.
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    1952’s ‘Successful Experiment’ Has Been Tried Before
    1015 5 4 FEW days ago it was announced that naval v gunboats had been operating high up the Pahang River, and the operation, in support of ground troops was described as a “successful experiment.” But it was not in fact such a novel undertaking.
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      218 5 McNEIL. To Margery <fc Jim at K.K. Singapore on 20th April, a Bonny boy: both very well. JONES: to Margaret (nee Ware) wife of Elmip Jo.ies a d.tugh er Olynls Sandra at Youngberg Hosp tal on 17-4-52. HOLLOWAYf to Vivienne wife of C. H. Ho'loway at Kandang Kerbau on
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      ENGAGEMENT
      115 5 LOH-EU: The engagement is announced between Dr Loh Slew Whye. son of Mrs. Loh Choon Quan and the late Mr. Loh Choon Ouan, and Mss Lucy Syne-Fong Eu. daughter of Mrs. Eu Tong Sen and the late Mr Eu Tong Sen. THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Eileen, youngest daughter
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    31 5 IN MEMORIAM HOPE: In ever loving memory of Plying Officer John. late R A P. Stu ion, Leconfield, Ycrks, k 1 ed in an air crash on 22-4-49, aged 24 years.
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    As I was Saying
    711 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. IF the mail had not 1 bosun yesterday to bring in the letters, it rni'int have been thought that General Tempter’s ass m! t upon golfers and race-goers had sailed harmlessly over the target. II ving perhaps first pinch- c! the.nse.ves to
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    THE AGE OF WONDER
    10 6 Photo graph by Yovg Peng Scong
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1059 6  -  siénléi 5m“ Long arm Wu ku whsi would dare hinge his piot on a coincidence Lke tins one, which comes to irs liom "nengam Road A seigoani oi the oih Koyai Uuikiia Riiies (F.F.* wounded m the trenches o* tiie Gallipoli Peninsula, was e vacua
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    Countryman’s Journal
    600 7  -  4LBERTUS found u Spider-Hunter’s nest containing two fledglings that flew off a few days later. These birds are timid and always leave their well-hidden nests if you pass nearby. They flit from tree to tree close by and utter their cry of “cheekcheek" for some time, even after
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    SINGAPOREANA
    786 7  -  Stanley Street. Past Governors SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. MR. J. F. NICOLL, Singa-1 pore’s second Governor, is expected in the Colony on Monday. His coming reminds us again of his predecessors m office in this part of the world. Of Colonel Harry St. George Ord, for instance, whose Prussian face
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    Jack fruit ripening:
    16 7 This picture comes from Mr. Lim YVow Chin of 324 Beach Road Singapore.
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    Fifty Years Ago
    280 7 From the Straits Times o April 13 to 19 1902. ja ANOTHER amazing ineit cient is reported from the Siamese Native States. The Sultan of Trmjcanu hai» decoyed a Christian Eurasian girl—a British subject—from Bangkok as governess to his famiiv. She is now detained there under all
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    THREE KILLED IN S. JOHORE
    371 8 JOIIORE BAHRU, Apr. 16. A BRITISH police lieutenant, a Chinese resettlement officer and a Malay special constable were killed by bandits in an ambush on the notorious Pontian road in South Johore today. Two constables were wounded. The killed were Police Lieut. Cawthra, Mi Cyril
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    WORKERS REPAIR the roof of the Penang Railway Pier from which corrugated iron sheets were blown by a storm on Apr. 14. –
    25 8 WORKERS REPAIR the roof of the Penang Railway Pier from which corrugated iron sheets were blown by a storm on Apr. 14. Straits Times picture.
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    Only 8 held in Tg Malim
    109 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 10. ONLY eight Of the !.s people arrested in Tan.iong \l:tlini following Sir (Jerald Templer’s collective punish men! and “information poll” ar,» still detained. Following investigations of allegations made during the punishment period and in letters to Sir (Jerald. ‘-0 of
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    Commandos honour dead
    108 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 16. THE men of No. 40 Com1 mando Royal Marines stood in silence on Clifford School Padang in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, today to remember 14 of their comrades who had fallen in bandit battles in Malaya. The Rev. R. G. Piggott, chaplin to the
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    CDC allotment
    44 8 Ihe Colonial Development any V,vi‘ar Fund has allot teo $36*2 ,000 for the constructor of thre r infant welfare '.‘lin es and a t.enehinv centre n Sinvanore vnv. a nnrmr t''bl- fl at yesterday’s meeting ,hr Legislative Council bv tin- Finance Committee
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    Red Cross honour for army nurse
    107 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. 17. \S ARMY nurse. Major E i Pull "t.. wh< Is I patv Miuvn* at tile British 1.. .i;; spi S.n ha oc.r. admitted to the Rj'vui Rec. Cross for distinguished service.- in Malaya. Ann uncenunt of the award was made in
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    Firm helps its staff to buy own homes
    122 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. rvNE of the oldest firms in Singapore, Guthrie and Company is encouraging its Asian staff to buy their own homes. Revealing this to the Straits Times yesterday, Mr. jG. H. Y Grant, secretary of 1 the firm, said: “We
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    WEATHER AFFECTS LOTTERY SALES
    105 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 16. BAD weather and reduced rubber prices have prevented sales of tickets in the fifth Social and Welfare Services Lottery from reaching the million mark, the secretaries told the Straits Time* today. With only two days to go more than 60,000 tickets still
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    Ipoh roads to be remetalled
    27 8 IPOH Thurs.—Kinta Town Hoard, at its meeting yesterday. was told that Government had agreed to re-metal Leone Rjn Nam and Cowan Streets
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    APPOINTED
    29 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. Mr. Murray Buttrose, acting Solicitor-General has been "pnointed a temporary member of Singapore Legislative Council during the absence of Mr. C H. Butterfield, the Solicitor-General.
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    Art Society needs permanent hall
    158 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. IT will be necessary for the Singapore Art Socie y —or any other similar organisation taking it> place —to have a permanent headquarters and hall if the talent for art is to be encouraged and activity increased. Dr. C. A. Gibson-Hill, Chairman
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    African job for him
    103 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. 18. MR. Donald Burnett-Rae. Chief Operation Officer. Department ot Civil Aviation. Singapore, will leavi rhp Colony in August to take up the post of Director of Civil Aviation. Northern Rhodesia. A Civil .viation Depart ment spokesman said las' night it was not likely the
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    GRILLS AT GOVT OFFICES
    38 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 18. Collapsible gates and grills have been fixed at all on- ranees to the Government Office.v, because thefts of bras> and copper fittings were ho coming rife. The installation cost $7,500
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    FOUR PCs CARRIED HER
    66 8 nHFir ah riino or, SINGAPORE. Apr. 18. CIIEE AH no a 37-year-oid woman, was carried into the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday on a small mattress by four policemen, he said she was an invalid. She was charged while ivmg on a bench in the court
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    BACK TO KALLANG
    60 8 MR. R. L. MILTON. Kalians airpurt manager lor the second time since coming out to Malaya from Palestine in 1948. Mr. Milton was airport manager soon after his arrival ami has now succeeded Mr. P. W. Ford who is on leave in Mritain. Mr. Milton was Operations
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    Information service
    95 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. A CHANGE in the erg. sation of the Fcdcr i: Emergency Informat 1 vices w’ill be made new Press officer a: Kuala Lumpur. Under the new arra’ it is likely that the Pr tion of the E. I. S. w:!l under the Director of h
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    A RECRUIT for Federation Police being tested in reading at Ipoh.
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    Accord on unified health scheme
    344 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 17. W: Federation and Singapore Government, nave agreed on proposals to form a unified health service. When these proposals are earned out there ill In* a single list for all officers on superstate or grades, and a single seniority list for V'time-scale officers.
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    Colonel gets new job
    79 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. LT -COL M. W. T. Roberts, who was seeond-in-com-mand of the Green Howards’ 1st Battalion in Malaya for about two years till last December, is now in the Regiment's depot in Richmond. England, working on the formation of the 2nd Battalion. Colonel Roberts
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    Honour for Malayan girl
    85 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 19. \fISS Suk Hun Chan, daughlfi < r of Mr. and Mrs. Chan Wit". Ko P of Seremban. has :v n awarded a President’s s,, holarship for 1952-53 at the 1 mtienwood College. St. Charles, Missouri, U S.A. The scholarships, presented d. a student
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    C.G. FLIES TO N. BORNEO
    57 9 SINGAPORE. Apr. 19. The Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, left Singapore by air yesterday morning on a brief visit to North Borneo. Mr. MacDonald wild be the guest of Mr. J. A. Calder. the Officer Administering the Government in North Borneo. He will meet leading personalities
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    They want police out of Town Hall
    166 9 IPOH, Apr. 16. 4 SUGGESTION that police headquarters should move from the Ipoh Town Hall and find or build alternative premises was unanimously supported at today s meeting of the Kinta Town Board. Dato Panglima Kinta Tuan Haji Moiiamed Eusoff said that it
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    Lion family arrive
    68 9 SINGAPORE. Apr. 18. VL r ORK along Singapore waterfront was disturbed yesterday when a growling lioness and her two two-month-old cubs were disembarked from the cargo ship Tjimentang. They had been brought from the Sydney zoo, and were sent to the Singapore Mavfield kennels and zoo. Last
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    ‘HELLO’ TO FOUR SONS
    119 9 A LINK-UP between Radi Malaya and the British Broadcasting Corporation in London on Apr. 17 reunited a British mother and her loin sons in Malaya. Mrs. Alice Price, mother ol Bob, John, Hugh and Bill Price, made a journey from her home in Cambridge to a
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    Bandits came hometo death
    235 9 Bandits came home—to death K. LUMPUR, Apr. 17. A .“CONTACT MAN with $1,300 ih his pocket was one of two bandits killed by a platoon of Green Howards in the Jasin area 1 of Malacca yesterday. The Green Howards lound an empty bandit camp They laid an ambush within it
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    GETS A LICENCE
    26 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 17 The Rev. George A Hood of the Presbyterian Church has been granted a licence to solemnise marriages in Tohore
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    SAVINGS CAMPAIGN TOO EXPENSIVE
    118 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 17. A BIG SAVINGS BANK campaign which started in Trengganu early last year had to be pruned as it involved frequent visits to outlying kampongs, and the cost was far too high in relation to the amount deposited This is revealed in the
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    ON HOLIDAY
    23 9 The Rev. Chiu Ban It. vicar of St. Andrew’s Cathedral h it Singapore on Apr. 18 for a holiday in Britain.
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    Law to deal with hotel-brothel ramp
    394 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. i EGISLATION aiming at stricter control of lj hotels, boarding-houses and lodging-houses, other than seamen’s lodging-houses, in Singapore, is being drafted by the Colony Government in its drive against vice. Explaining this in his 1951 report, published ve.iterday, Mr. R. W.
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    Here to be nearer son
    103 11 A mother who wants to be nearer her son fighting in Korea has come out to Malaya to do welfare work. She is Mrs. M. Bordass. of London, on P of four Red Cross nurses who arrived in Singapore by QantasBOAC to work in the
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    RETIRING
    22 11 MR. G. E. C. WISDOM, the Resident Commissioner of Malacca, who left Singapore in the Canton on Apr. 18 on retirement.
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    AID FOR CHILDREN’S SOCIETY PROMISED
    162 11 AID FOR CHILDREN’ S SOCIETY PROMISED SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. THE Social Welfare Department will co-operate 1 with the newly-formed Singapore Children’s Society to stamp out cruelty to children in the Colony. Mr. R W. I. Band. Secretary for Social Welfare, at the society’s meeting yesterday. offered a desk in the
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    Air hostess came in new role
    106 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18 VfISS DIANA BORTHWICK, Ifl who ha.s travelled over 60,000 air miles as a BOAC hostess, stepped out of a Qantas-BOAC Constellation yesterday in Singapore in a different role. In her luggage she brought a white wedding dress and travelled as a
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    NEW ADOPTION LAW PLANNED
    225 11 A NEW ADOPTION of Children’s Ordinance to replace existing legislation this year has been prepared by Singapore Government, states Mr. R. W. I. Band. Secretary for Social Welfare, in his report for 1951. The ordinance was prepared alter consulting Chinese. Muslim. Sikh and Hindu Advisory Boards
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    Boom did not benefit S’pore poor
    222 11 BEHIND the facade of prosperity. welfare problems of Singapore were as large and difficult of solution last year as ever before, states Mr. K. W. 1. Band. Secretary of the Social Welfare Department, in his report for 1951, “Bad housing conditions lea.' to delinquency
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    Red targets strafed
    60 11 SINGAPORE. Apr. 19. Brigand light bombers flying air cover for a convoy of police boaLs on a river In Northern Johore on Thursday dived to attack terrorists who opened fire at the boats from the jungleshrouded rlverbanks. Brigands flown Dy Sqn. Ldr. Peter Norman and Flying Officer
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    ONE MORE STEP TO CALL-UP
    477 12 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. WITH ONLY ONE DISSENTIENT, Singapore Legislative Council yesterday passed the second reading of the National Serv ice Hill and referred it for consideration to u Select Committee which will have power to confer with a similar committee appointed hv th e Federal
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    THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER – GENERAL, MR. W. ADDIS, cuts the ribbon to open thP Singapore Chinese Teachers’ Art Exhibition at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Apr. 17. Looking on is Miss Yang Shui Chor, chairman of the Singapore Chinese Schools Conference. In front of her is five-year-old Miss Lee Sook Wan of the Nan Hwa Girls’ School.
    61 12 THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER GENERAL, MR. W. ADDIS, cuts the ribbon to open th P Singapore Chinese Teachers’ Art Exhibition at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Apr. 17. Looking on is Miss Yang Shui Chor, chairman of the Singapore Chinese Schools Conference. In front of her is five-year-old Miss Lee
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    PLEA FOR CHINA WIVES
    245 12 SINGAPORE. Apr. 18. THE Singapore Government was urged yesterday at the Legislative Council, by Mr. P. F. dc Souza (Nominated), 10 al£er its policy regarding the entry from China of the wives of local Chinese. Speaking during the ud- journment. he said: “II a man can
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    Job is done well’
    123 12 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18 THE acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. Andrew Gilmour. praised the Colony Immigration Department during yes-1 terday’s Legislative Council meeting, for “doing a difficult job impartialQy.” Mr. GiUmour wa. s replying to Dato C. J. Paglar (Pro-gressive-Changi), who said that if what he had been
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    Land valuation in Singapore
    57 12 Mr. R. C. Snell, of the Board of Inland Revenue ii Britain, has begun work on a suggested land valuation in Singapore. Mr. Snell, who started work last month, will be here for three months. The Singapore Legislative Council yesterday approved payment of $12,807 for nil
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    BASIC WAGE PLAN IS NOT FAVOURED
    118 12 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. Government does not think that a minimum basic wage woudd have the effect of avoiding labour disputes. It said so yesterday in a written answer tabled at the Singapore Legislative Coun- cil meeting, basing the doubt i on the fact that
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    ‘MY NIGHTMARE’ —DR. VICKERS
    260 12 MY NIGHTMARE —DR. VICKERS SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. THERE is at least one doctor in Singapore who says he is suffering from nightmares because of his zeal in the maintainance of public health. He is Dr. W. J. Vickers. Singapore's Director of Medical Services, who asked in the Legislative Council yesterday:
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    RADIO WARNED: ‘NO POLITICS’
    133 12 SINGAPORE. Apr SINGAPORE Goven ment has recently nminded the Department of Broadcasting of tv need for political impartiality. This assurance was gj V yesterday at the Sing in, Legislative Council nieet-'w in a written reply to a tion by Mr. N. A Mallal <Pr City), a
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    Key men may not go
    118 12 Mr. Andrew Gilmour. the ar Colonial Secretary. Mr. A \V Prisby. Director of Educ.it:. a Singapore, and Dr. W. J. Vick?:> the Director of Singapore's Mem Services, may not retire in 'i.» near future, when they reach t normal retiring age. Answering a question about
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    Money needed, not staff—Frisby
    154 12 Money needed not staff —Frisby SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, Mr. A. 1 Frisby, told Singapore Legislative Council yesterday that money was wanted for increased Ol a tionai education —not staff or committees. \lr. Frisby was replying to Mr. N. A. Mallal (ProgressiveCity) who. appealing for more technical
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    FIVE COUNCIL BILLS
    47 12 Five Bills were passed bv the Sings porp Legislative Council on Apr. 17. They were: The Singapore Harbour Board Reserve Bill, the Police Force (Amendment) Bill, the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill, the Municipal (Elections Amendment) Bill, and the Singapore Legislative Council Elections (Amendment) Bill.
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    COOK FOR GOVERNOR
    158 12 THE second cook at S.n -ipore Government H has had his basic sajj r creased by $15 a month- $50 to $65. by the h n committee of thp S.. 1 Legislative Council. Other grants approved the Council 'were: To meet the cxp p". se t ‘o
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    MR. JAN EVERT de Jong and Miss Johanna Goverdina Maria Okkermans were married at the Cathedral of the Good Shephered, Singapore, on Apr. 17.
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    THIS BUST of Mr. A. W. Frisby, Singapore’s Director of Education, is the work of Mrs. A. Gunaratnam.
    49 13 It s np of 169 exhibits at the Ari Society’s third opt-n (-xhihition which began at the British (‘ounoil (‘i-ntrP. Singapore. Admiring the bus is Mr. Francis Thomas. —Straits Times picture.
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    Landlords may get wider powers
    461 13 w SINGAPORE, April 18. nROUNDS for eviction of tenants in Singapore (j wou i be widened under a new and comprehenlVP rt iit control bill (Control of Rent Ordinance wliirh was placed before the Legislative Council yesterday. is proposed that the landlord should be entitled
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    CONTROL OF CHIEF TENANTS
    234 13 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. j 11HE new Singapore rent control Bill proposed by the Select Committee places curbs on chief tenants. To prevent the chief tenant from charging sub-tenant, excessive rents, the Bill provides tfc.it any sub tenant may apply to the Rent Conciliation Board to apportion
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    RENT CONTROL MUST STAY
    303 13 RENT control should b e continued in Singapore for an unlimited period, it is recommended by six of the eight members of the Select Committee appointed bv the Legistative Council to examine rent control legislation. The majority report says: “Wp are of the opinion that, j
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    Wanted: Friends for new villiages
    163 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 16. THE Government is seeking “jacks of all trades” to build the resettlement areas into new villages. “We want men who will be fathers to the new’ villages mixtures of administrators, magistrates, friends, sanitary inspectors and general advisors to the people,” a
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    Six who drafted the new rent control bill
    126 13 r rilF new rent control Bill placed before the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday is written by six members of the Select Committee, and embodies recommendations made in their majority report. It incorporates much of the existing leaislation without amendment. The. six members
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    The men who pay their income tax
    137 13 SINGAPORE. Apr. 18 THE Singapore Government yesterday gave estimates of the number of income taxpayers. They are Business companies 650: salary earners 9,000 Asian taxpayers 9,000 and non-Asian taxpayers 6.500. The net amount of tax paid in 1951 was $50.7 million No figures
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    Village to be moved
    153 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 18 PAY A LANG new village, at the jungle fringe about three miles from Mengkuang, in south-west Pahang and easy prev to thp bandits i s to be moved again. Despite this second move, the inhabitants are happy *sid more than willing to
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    GUILDS BACK PLAN
    133 13 REPRESENTATIVES of 60 Chinese guilds and associations in Negri Sembilan on Thursday agreed to support General Sir Gerald Tempter’s call for recruitment of more Chinese to the Federation Police Force. Cantonese, Hakkas and llainanpsp are being urged to reform their expensive marriage and burial rites. C’urculars were
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    ‘More powers for local councils’
    618 14 MacG GIVES HINT IN K.L. KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 18. THE SOLUTION TO MANY PROBLEMS in Malaya might well lie in the vesting of responsibilities in local committees or councils, the Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. D. C. MacGillivray, told the Malayan Association at its quarterly meeting
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    Reds train in Siamese bases
    181 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 19. ABOUT 200 Communist terrorists refit and train in the border areas adjoining North Malaya. Mr. R. W. E. Harper, the British Vice-Con-sul at Singgora, Siam, said today. From their bases in Siam, they are known to infiltrate into Malaya along old
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    FUND FOR POOR BOYS URGED
    62 14 ALOR STAR. Apr. 19. Government should create a special fund to provide free books to children of poor parents attending various schools in Kedah, Tuan Haji S. M. Hashim <Malay Unofficial) urged at today’s State Council meeting. He said that a similar fund had been
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    NEW MARKET FOR J .B.
    48 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 19. The Johore Bahru Town Board has sent a plan of the proposed new market for the town to th State Secretary. The market will cost $*****0 and will be twice tho size of the present market in Jalan Seggct.
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    Says promises to Volunteers broken
    333 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 18. AN attack on Government for its “pre-war ineptitude and post-war broken promises’* in its dealings with volunteers was made today by Mr. F. J. Woodward, secretary of the Former War Prisoners’ (Malayan Union) Association at a meeting of the Malayan Association
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    Deportees may go by air
    81 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 18. BRITISH subjects may, in future, be deported from Singapore by air, as well as by sea, if the report of the Select Committee which has been sitting to examine the Deportation (British Subjects) Ordinance 1951. is accepted The committee’s recommendations allow for
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    ‘Still bad’ in Malaya
    69 14 HONG KONG. Apr. 20 THE security situation in Malaya is “still very bad.” Mr. W. A. Welch, chairman of the Rubber Trust, reported yesterday. In certain districts, he said, it is “almost impossible for rubber estate managers to supervise their estates properlv. He said it was
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    Emergency roads
    21 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Apr New roads have been constructed in Johore at a co>* of $324,054 to help emergency operations.
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    Govts urged to support Volunteer Forces
    167 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 18. FEDERAL and State Governments were todav strongly urged to support the new Federation Volunteer Force in its efforts to get adequate outings and training facilities. Volunteers were joining up and it was of vital importance that this keenness should not
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    Chinese as acting director
    118 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 18. ]y|R. M. K. SOONG will be appointed to act as Director of Fisheries, Federation of Malaya and Singapore when Mr. D. W. l e Mare, the Director, goes on leave after the South Pacific Commission conference in New Caledonia next month. Mr.
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    Six charming songstresses took time off to look after babies at the Overseas Chinese creche in Balmoral Rord, Singapore, on Apr. 19
    92 15 The occasion was a tea party at which Dr. S. C. llwa, founder of the creche, announced that leading songstresses would take part in a variety concert at
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    Government is tackling the problem
    137 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 13. npHE Deputy High lommis- 1 sioner Mr I) MacGillivray told the m retina that Government iullv ap- i preciated the medical and health need*, of the new villages The extent to wliivh w»* can ini prove our health and medical services
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    VARSITY HOSTEL
    117 15 SINGAPORE, Apr: 21. ITNIVERSITY of Malaya’s $2 000.000 hostel at Dunearn R tad. Singapore, will be ready for occupation when the new academic session begin.? in September, The hostel which comprises semi-detached houses, arranged around open spaces *o form a housing estate, wii: accommodate at least 420 students.
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    Health service for villages urged
    355 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 18. WARNING that serious epidemics might break out in the new villages because of lack of medical services was made today by I)r. H. A. Lamprell, at a meeting of the Malayan Association in Kuala Lumpur. *‘l fear this country will be
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    Two week radio show planned
    225 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 18. will be able to watch “live'* broadcasts through the glass walls of a radio studio at a radio exhibition at the Happy World stadium, Singapore, in August. The exhibition, which opens on Aug. 2, will last a fornight. It will be
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    U.K. TOYS BEAT THE JAPS
    154 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 21 VJOKE toys unci h are coming into Malaya than ever before Ana, con.raiy io expect.*ions, Japanese I y. s have not pushed British toys oil he market, although they arc cheaper. In 1031), tolai imports of :oy.-> were valued at $501,204 —from
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    Harbour Board cargo figures
    57 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 21. A total of 605,154 tons of cargo, including 6,641 tons of coal and 70,331 tens of oil, was handled by the Singapore Harbour Board last month. Cargo loaded from Singapore during the month amounted to 199,566 tens. The total for the first three
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    SATA Fund
    22 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 21. RECENT donations to the Singapore Antl-Tuber-culosis Association Fund include a $3,500 gift from the Teochew Theatrical Association.
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    THE BISHOP of Singapore, Rt. Rev. Henry Wolfe Baines, dedicating a tablet in St. Andrew’s Cathedral on Apr. 20 in memory of Dr. Patricia Ruth Elliot of St. Andrew’s Orthopaedic Mission Hospital.
    36 15 THE BISHOP of Singapore, Rt. Rev. Henry Wolf e Baines, dedicating a tablet in St. Andrew’s Cathedral on Apr. 20 in memory of Dr. Patricia Ruth Elliot of St. Andrew’s Orthopaedic Mission Hospital. Straits Times picture.
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    DR. ELLIOT TABLET DEDICATED
    174 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 21. A TABLET in memory of Dr. Pairicia Ruth Elliot formerly of the St. Andrew’s Orthopaedic Mission Hospital Pinero neve, wns dedicated in St. Andrew’s Cathedral vesterday bv the Bishoo of Singapore. Rt. Rev. Henry Wolfe Baines. In a short sermon before the dedication.
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      71 15 9<>nr(er1y Jfalf-yearly early STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Singapore Town Arm No Postage 5.20 1040 20.80 Malaya Includin'! Postage S 5.75 11.50 23.00 Br. Empire Foreign (Including POSt.'gc) 0 75 13.50 27.00 The weekiv Lssues of thi? Straits Budget ran be sent bv v Pr°ss at delivery service
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    NE W GO VERNOR IS S WORN IN
    256 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. seventeenth Governor, Mr. John Fearns Nicoll, arrived by Qantas-BOAC Constellation yesterday. An hour later he was sworn in the Queen Victoria Room at Government House. Mr. Nicoll told reporters that he was happy to be in Singapore. Mr. Nicoll
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    AN APPEAL TO CHINESE
    69 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 21. Col. C. E. Mills, who has succeeded Brigadier W. H. Bordass as Assistant Director of Civil Defence. Johore. is appealing for Chinese to take up full time jobs as officers in the Home Guards. The appointments rank from Inspectors to District Staff
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    The sentries stopped them
    77 17 PRESS photographers were invited to go to Government House yesterday afternoon to Lake scenes of the swearing-in of Mr. J. F Nicoll. They were, however, stopped at the inner gates by the sentries who said thev had instructions that no photographers were to be permitted at
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    Visit by Siam’s welfare chief
    50 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. The Director-General of the Siamese Public Welfare Department. Nai Pakron Angsusingha, arrived in Singapore yesterday on a visit to the Colony and the Federation Social Welfare and Labour Departments. He flies to Ruala Lumpur today and returns to the Colony on Friday.
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    NEW MEMBER OF COUNCIL
    46 17 LUMPUR, Apr. 21. Commissioner has pointed Mr. L. D. Whitfield, i C^ c l or of Education, to be mporary official member r* Federal Legislative T piroi W^}i] e Dato E. E. C. i Member for Nation. S aWay ,r m the
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    Kuching may be a municipality
    242 17 KUCHING, Apr. 22 I/TCHING, the capital of Sarawak, is to be made a municipality under the provisions of a Bill to be introduced at the next meeting of the Council Negri. •After the Japanese war, a report was made on the possibility of converting '‘Kuchlnr.
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    ‘Let those who serve he citizens’
    190 17 Let those who serve he citizens’ SINGAPORE. Apr. 22. A COMMITTEE of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday decided to ask Government to grant British citizenship to aliens who apply after completing their term ot National Service. It was also proposed that National Servicemen need not be subject to the
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    MILK FOR THE SICK SPOILT IN TRANSIT
    126 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. DRIED full cream milk—about 20 tons—which arrived in Singapore four months ago for hospitals, has been found fit only for feeding animals. An oflicial of the Singapore General Hospital told the Straits Times yesterday that the milk, packed in 56-lb.
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    Ward at the Residency
    68 17 PENANG. Apr. 21. Mr. Norman Ward, the Municipal President, today took over as acting Penang Resident Commissioner is place of Mr R. P. who went on home leave last Saturday. Mr. Ward’s place as Municipal President has been taken over by Mr. L. R. F. Earle,
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    Firms must endorse cheques
    129 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. OINGAPORE business houses from May 1 have to endorse personally all cheques made payable to them, and discontinue the present practice of allowing the banks to guarantee the endorsement by stamping the cheque and initialling it. Mr. G. A. P. Sutherland, chairman of
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    He’s here to ‘salute’ ex-agents
    87 17 He’ s here to ‘salute’ ex-agents SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. A JAPANESE businessman, representing a large export and import organisation in Japan, arrived in Singapore yesterday to “salute our former High Street agents.” Mr, K. Ueda, who is travelling under a transit visa, told the Straits Times that merchants in Japan
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    HOME LEAVE
    32 17 TANJONG RAMBUTAN A|M\ 21. Dr. M. A X. Cocheme, the Medical Superintendent, Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutan. has gone on leave to Britain and Dr. David Lennox has succeeded him.
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    Karim Ghani, riot detainee, freed
    347 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. AIOHAMED ABDUL KARIM GHANI, former president of the Singapore Muslim League, who was detained after the Hertogh riots in December 1950, yesterday was allowed to leave the detention w ard of Singapore General Hospital under a special suspension order. The chief of
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    Cost of cremation
    32 18 Because of the increased cost of firewood in Singapore the City Council has increased cremation fees at the Hindoo and Buddhist cemeteries at Serangoon Road from $45 to $5O.
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    TRANSFERRED
    19 18 JOHORB BAHRU. Apr. 21. MrJ. Ecelcs, of th P Prisons Department. Johore Bahru P?nang. ft 0n tranfifer to
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    Assn, will interview Mr. Gilmour
    178 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 22. A RRANGEMENTS are being made for a sub-committee of tile Singapore Association to see the Secretary for Economic Affairs, Mr. Andrew Gilmour, some time next month, to have the functions of the department explained to it. The association has been informed by
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    Two others also freed
    82 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. TWO others of the .group of six Muslims who were arrested after the Hertogh riots in Singapore in December 1950. were released some months ago on similar suspension orders to that under which Abdul Mohamed Abdul Karim Ghani was released on Monday. Chief
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    DECREE IS GRANTED TO WIFE
    116 18 SINGAPORE. Apr. 22. THIS is an unhappy case where the respondent suffered in Changi Prison and later on the Siam “death’’ railway.” thi Singapore High Court was toCd yesterday in respect of an application for divorce. Mrs. Mary Doig Morrison petitioned for divorce on the
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    Big game hunter shoots 2 elephants
    94 18 JOHORE BAHRU,Apr. 21. ELEPHANTS which caused much damage in the Ulu Langkat area of Selangor have been dispersed after two were killed. The Selangor Government asked Mr. Eric Foenander. a big game hunter, of the Forestry Department. Bentong. to go to Ulu Langkat. After
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    213 COLONY DEATHS
    50 18 Out of a total of 2ia people who died in Singapore last week, pneumonia and enteric caused 62. There were 22 deaths from tuberculosis, three from beriberi, five from convulsions and two from dysentery. Infant deaths jumped from 80 in the previous week to 122 last week.
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    MENTRI BESAR DEFENDS RULER
    407 18 IPOH f Apr. 19. JTRONC exception to a statement a tew d ago by Tengku Abdul Rahman, president ll UMNO, was taken by the Mentri Best? Perak this afternoon at a farewell lum-he*/ given in his honour by the Sultan of Perak Dr to his departure
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    36 LEARN TO BE RESCUERS
    187 18 SINGAPORE. Apr. 22. THIRTY-SIX “rescue men” were told by the Commissioner for Civil Defence. Col L T. Firbank. yesterday: "If is important, that there :s integration of the ciVil defence plans of the fighting services and the civilian population The men—l 7 civilians and 19
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    BRILLIANT MARC PAYS $133 AT K.L.
    1062 19 ATTALA LUMPUR. Apr. 19. Briilia-' -MARC (Wally “Tr.-rvi created a <snprt i ipset to pay $133 s k Lumpur today. -i.ty of the Selangor ub April Meeting. Rn l Marc overcame a u, (l ;j..w with hia early A, i nd wore down the
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    Flying Club sets up a new record
    215 19 WITH just over 2,312 hours in the air last year, the Royal Singapore Flying Club established a post-war record for its own flying time. In 1947 the club only flew 123 hours. In the committee’s 1951 report it is pointed out that the
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    SIKH BAND IS ON LEAVE
    89 19 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. The Singapore Police will /toon have a Malay band In addition to its present Sikh me. The Police bandmaster. Mr R. E. House, who is now training young Malay musicians, told the Straits Timex yesterday that members of ne w Malav band
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    Colony batsman’s first century
    1080 19 [THE WEEK IN sport] THURAISINGHAM, the Colony batsman, scored the first century in this year’s Singapore Cricket Association senior tournament when he made 104 against Singapore Cricket Club on the padang. Ceylonese took first inriings points. There was not a single outright decision in the four
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      57 19 Big Sweep Total pool: $332,000. 1st No. *****2 ($89,640) 2nd. No. *****8 ($44,820) 3rd. No. *****7 ($22,410) Starters: ($2,037) each) Nos: *****7: *****1; *****1 *****7; *****8; *****4, *****7; *****6; *****1; *****5: *****8. Consolation ($1,992 each) J(®s:*****0; *****4; *****7; *****4; *****8; *****0 *****8; *****6; *****2; *****7. DOUBLE TOTE: First: Ei C
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    More confidence & more business
    312 20 More confidence more business [SHARE MARKET From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Apr. 21. IN four days ‘jo?sb3 Wl* 3ujpb.ii Malayan markets showed more confidence and an increased volume of business was written. Among Industrials, Hammers were a feature on the announcement of the intention to ‘water’ capital by the issue
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    Sungei Way Tin
    14 20 Idris Hydraulic Tin output for the first quarter was 69Vfe tons.
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    BUSINESS DONE
    179 20 SINGAPORE. Apr. 21. Business done in the Malayan, Share Market last week included: Industrials: British Malaya Trustee $6.50; Fraser Neave $3.60 to $3.62'-; Gammon $2.77'and $2.80; Great Eastern Life $3, paid $12.75; Hammer $46.00 to $47,00; Malayan Breweries $4.95 and $5.00; Malayan Collieries $1 67 Vi and $1.65;
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    Radella Rubber
    61 20 I>ADELLA Rubber Estate* Ltd.. profit for the year 1951 was $124,475 (62.2 per cent.) The final dividend of 22 Vi per cent makes a total of 35 per cent, for the year. Net liquid assets $121,153 are equal to 60 Vi cents per share. The crop averaged 428
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    Two 80 p.c. dividends
    166 20 JERAM KUANTAN Rubber Estates Ltd. profit for the year 1951 was $490,043, or 170 per cent. Proposed final dividend of 50 per cent, will make a total dividend for the year of 80 per cent. Net liquid assets of $441,395, work out at $1.53 per share
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    Connemara Ltd. made $433,459
    86 20 /CONNEMARA Ltd. made $433,459 (86.6 per cent.) in 1951 and final recommendation of 15 per cent, will make 50 per cent, distributed for the year. Net liquid assets at $193,818 are equuT to 38.7 cents per share. Cost of production was 52.2 cents per lb. on
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    MARCH TIN MOVEMENTS
    59 20 MOVEMENTS of tin-ln-con-centrates from the Federation to Singapore and Penang in March amounted to over 500 tons more than in February. The total moved was 4.905 tons, compared with 4.347 tons in February. This year, up to the end of March, 14.417 tons have been moved, compared
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    DROP IN RUBBER STOCKS
    80 20 Stocks of ruober held by dealers and in port in Singapore at the end of last month totalled 53,024 tons —1.331 tons less than in February. Dealers stock of dry and wet rubber amounted to 40.517 tons, and port stocks. Including those in transit from the
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    Japan ready for big trade drive
    255 20 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. lAPANESE FIRMS were ready to embark on lh J extensive trade expansion policy in South-! s t Asia, Mr. Takenosuke Kutsuzawa, a Japanese bn inessman, told the Straits Times yesterday. Mr. Kutsuzawa is on a short visit to Singa: P during
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    PROFIT OF $812,304
    112 20 IIfALAYAN Producers Ltd., showed a profit of $812,304 U 35 per cent.) for the year 1951. The final dividend of 5 per cent, will make a total for the year of 65 per cent Net liquid assets at $667,664 are equal to $l.ll per share. Part of
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    Kepong output
    16 20 I£EPONG Dredging Company’s output for the quarter ending Mar. 31. 1952. amounted to tons.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    896 20 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Alex BricKs Pref 2 10 2 2b Ords 3 25 3.35 Atlas Ice 12 50 13 50 BB Petrol 39/- 40/B.M Trustees 6 00 T OO Con. Tin Smelt Pref 21/- 22/- xd Ords 21/6 22/6 Eastern United 38 00 39.50
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    Inquiry was better for low grades
    175 20 i Ru bher May; SINGAPORE. Apr j .AFTER the Easte r holm. ys trading was resume tl j the same levels, and flm v tions since then have i, on very small. There has been a betu. inquiry fdr low grades and remills for
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    86 20 SINGAPORE, Apr. 23. Complete absence of buuna interest caused pepper seller.' n. the Singapore Produce Market to drop the price of the cornu. dity yesterday when Muntok was offered at $490 a picul. Sar.r-.k at $485 and Lampong (black' at $395. No business was repor a Copra
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    Bonus issue by Hammer
    107 20 MESSRS Hammer 1 Company are to ciov their issued share capita* SI.044.000 by the issue honus shares to shareho.o In proportion to their holdings This decision, whicn come up for confirmation the company’s annual 11 1 lng on May 10. 'as b"> taken to bring the
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    Idris Hydraulic
    21 20 TIN ore output of Sunget 1 Dedelng, Ltd., for the gun ter ended March 31. WM piculs (92 tons).
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